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As the handbook to the Jones Collection stated in 1883: \"Suddenly ... a collection has been  given ...  which contains the very objects so much to be desired, and, as it seemed a year ago, so hopeless of attainment.\" A military tailor  who made  his fortune during the Crimean War, Jones (1799-1882)  started collecting seriously in the 1850s, sharing a taste for luxury  objects of the  ancien regime with aristocratic collectors such as the  fourth marquess of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace (founders of  London's Wallace  Collection), John Bowes, and Baron Ferdinand de  Rothschild.\n\nThis vase shape had an amusing unofficial name which has come down to us in some contemporary documents: 'vase à corset' or  'bodice vase'.  The name seems very fitting when considering the cut away curves of the moulded shape.  The shape was one of many designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis and dates from 1754.  According to Geoffrey de Bellaigue, who made a detailed study of this shape for his catalogue (see below) it was made in six sizes with covers, the cover from this vase (and its pair) has unfortunately not survived.  The pair in the Royal Collection has a deep blue gilded ground for the lower part of shape, emphasizing its similarity to the bodice of a dress.  The dealer and <i>marchand-merice</i>r Lazare Duvaux whose sales book survives bought twelve examples between 20 August 1756 and 1 January 1757.   The model appears most frequently in the records from 1755-60 with relatively few being made in the 1760s.  According to de Bellaigue: 'The vases may have fallen from grace because their shape was judged too fanciful and delicate for the 1760s and 70s, when neo-classicism was becoming all the rage.'\n\nGeoffrey de Bellaigue. <u> French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen</u>, Royal Collection Publications, 2009, 3 vols.","physicalDescription":"Vase of tapering form, the shoulder and upper part fluted, the lower part smooth with a split in the centre forming a deep V, extending at the sides and curling over to form the two foliate handles. The white body is enamelled with garlands of polychrome flowers, the moulding, rim and foot picked out in gold.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Jacques Fontaine","id":"A30996"},"association":{"text":"painter","id":"x39168"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"moulded","id":"x30076"},{"text":"enamelled","id":"x30139"},{"text":"gilded","id":"AAT53789"},{"text":"fired","id":"AAT53887"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"soft-paste porcelain, enamelled and gilded","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Vases","id":"THES48879"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2010EH1907","2009CT3023","2006AW2988","2017KE1805","2018KP2922"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"3","id":"THES263060"},"free":"","case":"CA15","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Sèvres","id":"x29522"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1762","earliest":"1762-01-01","latest":"1762-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"801A-1882","id":"O1157806"},"association":"Pair"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"277","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"26.09.12","earliest":"2012-09-26","latest":"2012-09-26"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"19.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"186","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"26.09.12","earliest":"2012-09-26","latest":"2012-09-26"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"147","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"26.09.12","earliest":"2012-09-26","latest":"2012-09-26"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"five dots forming a diamond with a dot in the centre (painter's mark for Jacques Fontaine)","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"Interlaced 'L's enclosing date letter 'I'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Date letter 'I' for 1761, or possibly 1761-1762"}],"objectHistory":"The vase is one of a pair with 801A-1882. These vases originally had covers. There is a pair of lidded <i>vases cannelé</i> with a <i>bleu lapis caillouté</i> ground, dated c.1755-7, in the Royal Collection, London (36117.1.a-b and 36117.1.a-b) and a lidded vase of 1754 in the Danish Museum of Art &amp; Design, Copenhagen. A pair, also without lids, the upper part with the <i>bleu lapis caillouté</i> ground, dated c.1755-6, in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection at Wadsworth Athenaeum.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Vase of soft-paste porcelain, painted with polychrome floral garlands and gilded, painted by Jacques Fontaine, Sèvres porcelain factory, France, 1762.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, <u>Sèvres Porcelain</u> (London and Boston: Faber & Faber, 1987), pp. 289-290, no. 102."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"William King,<u> Catalogue of the Jones Collection, II, Ceramics, ormolu, goldsmiths' work, enamels, sculpture, tapestry, books, and prints</u> (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924), p. 11, no. 122, illustrated plate 3."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, <u>French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection</u> (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000), p. 111-113, no. 61."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Geoffrey de Bellaigue, <u>French porcelain in the collection of Her Majesty the Quee</u>n (London: Royal Collection Enterprises, 2009), Vol. 1,  pp. 119-122, no.11."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Peters, David. <u> An examination of Vincennes and early  Sèvres date letters</u>.  The French Porcelain Society, A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014.  London, 2014.  Following a detailed analysis of the records against existing pieces, Peters has suggested 'I’ is now for 1762, not 1761-2 as formerly thought."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Garnier, Édouard.  <i>La porcelaine tendre de Sèvres</i>, Paris, Maison Quintan, 1891.  Illustrated plate XXVII."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"garlands","id":"AAT167386"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Vase\r\n1762\r\n\r\nVases of this shape were described as ‘vases cannelés’ and ‘vases à corset’ (‘ribbed’ or ‘corset-shaped’) in Sèvres factory documents. Their purchasers are listed as members of the royal family and <i>marchands merciers</i> (specialist luxury retailers). Although the Sèvres factory was wholly owned by Louis XV from 1759, it served merchants and a wider public, as well as fulfilling royal orders.\n\nFrance (Paris)\r\nMade at the Sèvres factory\r\nPorcelain painted in enamels and gilded\r\nBequeathed by John Jones\r\n","date":{"text":"09/12/2015","earliest":"2015-12-09","latest":"2015-12-09"}}],"partNumbers":["801-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"801","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN2926","2019LU4861"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}